US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS on May 5 for "Sliding material, bearing, and methods of making and using the same" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,438, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS Corp. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Sliding material, bearing, and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Jing Dong (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Nafih Mekhilef (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Vincent Dimartino (Clifton, N.J.) and Christian Murphy (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding material including: a substrate, and a textured sliding layer overlying the substrate, where the sliding layer includes asperities including a plurality of apexes and nadirs, where 1) the sliding layer has a root mean square gradient of less than 0.064; 2) the sliding layer has an ...